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economia.unitn.it>****************************************************************** ****************** Call for participation ****************** ****************************************************************** +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | CONTEXT'03 | | | | Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on | | Modeling and Using Context | | | | Stanford, California (USA) | | June 23-25, 2003 | | | | (http://www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03) | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ We are pleased to announce that the registration and accomodation reservation procedures for attending Context 2003 are open online. Please, follow this link to formalize your registration: http://context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03/ You can also find links for alternative hotel solutions and travel tips. TECHNICAL PROGRAM, PRELIMINARY VERSION Monday June 23, 2003 - ------------------ 9:00-9:15 Welcome 9:15-10:15 Invited Talk 1: David Leake (Computer Science Department, Indiana University, USA) 10:15-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-12:30 Session 1: Natural Language I * Robert Porzel Contextual Natural Language Processing with Ontological and Situational Coherence * Hugo Liu Unpacking Meaning from Words: A Context-Centered Approach to Computational Lexicon Design * Martin Trautwein Comparatively True Types: a Set-Free Ontological Model of Interpretation and Evaluation Contexts * Mark Whitsey Discourse Context and Indexicality 12:30-14:15 Lunch 14:15:-15:05 Session 2: Context and Common Sense Reasoning * Ramanathan Guha and John McCarthy Varieties of Contexts * John Bell A Common Sense Theory of Causation 15:05:-15:55 Session 3: Logic of Context I * Rolf Nossum A Contextual Approach to the Logic of Fiction * Luciano Serafini Local Relational Model: a Logical Formalization of Database Coordination 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30:-17:45 Session 4: Context and Cognitive Modeling * Leslie Ganet, Patrick Brezilllon and Charles Tijus Explanation as Contextual Categorization * Agnes Giboreau, Isabel Urdapilleta and Jean Francois Richard Effects of Context on the Description of Olfactory Properties * Elisabetta Zibetti and Charles Tijus Perceiving Action from Static Images: the Role of Spatial Context 18:00 Informational and historical walking tour of the Stanford Campus and Palo Alto downtown. Refreshment in a nice pub garden. Tuesday June 24, 2003 - ------------------- 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 2: Keith Devlin (CSLI, Stanford University, USA) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:40 Session 5: Philosophical Foundations * Claudia Bianchi How To Refer: Objective Context vs. Intentional Context * Roger Young Demonstratives, Reference and Perception * Horacio Arlo-Costa A Theory of Contextual Propositions for Indicatives * Isidora Stojanovic What to Say on What Is Said 12:40-14:15 Lunch 14:15:-15:55 Session 6: Logic of Context II * Richmond Thomason Dynamic Contextual Intensional Logic: Logical Foundations and an Application * Sasa Buvac A Deduction Theorem for Modal Propositional Logic * Paolo Bouquet and Luciano Serafini On the Difference Between Bridge Rules and Lifting Axioms * Valeria de Paiva Natural Deduction and Context as (Constructive) Modality 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30:-18:30 Poster Session 20:30 Barbecue Dinner (Included in the registration fees). Wednesday June 25, 2003 - --------------------- 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 3: Patrick Brezillon (LIP 6, University Paris 6, France) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:40 Session 7: Context-aware Applications * Ghita Kouadri Mostifaoui and Patrick Brizillon A Generic Framework for Context-Based Distributed Authorizations * Robert P. Arritt and Roy M. Turner Context-Sensitive Weights for a Neural Network * Lucas Paletta Predictive Visual Context in Object Detection * Seiie Jang and Woontack Woo ubi-UCAM: A Unified Context-Aware Application Model 12:40-14:15 Lunch 14:15:-15:30 Session 8: Natural Language II * Nobo Komagata Contextual Effects on Word Order: Information Structure and Information Theory * Kavita Thomas Modelling "but" in Task-Oriented Dialogue * David Ahn Presupposition Accommodation in Adverbial Quantification 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00:-16:50 Session 9: Natural Language III * Dominic Widdows A Mathematical Model for Context and Word-Meaning * Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini and Stefano Zanobini A SAT-based Algorithm for Context Matching 16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks CONFERENCE CHAIR Fausto Giunchiglia (Universit� degli Studi di Trento, Italy) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Chiara Ghidini (University of Liverpool, UK) Roy Turner (University of Maine, USA) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Dikran Karagueuzian (dikranMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue